The Buddha Project Reply To: Y2Q19) Mind as the creator (1)
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Falling in love is also a great example: within hours, days, weeks that other person triggers a whole range of perceptions in the mind, increasingly with more emotions, fantasies, desires, etc. You are over the moon. The story becomes ever bigger, while the person did not really change that drastically in that period. Buddhism says that a whole lot of karma related to that person from previous lives is suddenly leading to butterflies in one’s stomach. That follows the yogachara theory quite well: a lot of the over-the-top feelings and perceptions, as well as the consciousness being aware off it, are both caused by the ripening of karma.